Thanks for the comments. Yes, these are hard to shoot, and I deliberately chose a dark day to eliminate the problem of white turbine blades against a bright sky. I hoped that the tracks through the field in the foreground would "lead the eye" into the photo. The problems are that these things are widely scattered, and rather static at the shutter speed necessary on a blustery morning (too windy for anything less than a 10kg tripod; maybe the K10D would have managed at 1/20 or so had it been available!).
Re wind power: I found these devices very intriguing, and did a good deal of reading about them. The main problem is that the wind blows least when the power is needed most (a hot, humid summer day), and blows the most when power is needed least (a wet 4C November morning). So, power companies have to keep lots of capital tied up in fossil-fuel-burning reserve capacity, and that's not attractive. Rick --- Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ordinarily, I would be taking (and posting) > winter-type photos now. However, it reached 72F/ > 22C > in Philadelphia today, the rosebush next door is in > bloom, and it's not wintry at all. > > So, I've returned to my collection of pix from our > trip to Germany this fall, for this shot taken on a > cold, wet, blustery morning: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5420852 > > These wind turbines are all over the place in > central > Germany. They are enormous (if you look closely, > you > can see steps and a door at the base of the closest > one), and turn slowly in a strangely fascinating > way. > > Tech stuff: ist D, FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/250, > RAW > file converted to DNG with Adobe DNG Converter, > thence > to JPG via ACR and PE4. > > Plaudits, brickbats, and mere comments all welcomed. > > Rick > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
